Mods:
- Made everything but the hardware from scratch and the list is too long to name everything here. Adjustable colour home-made LED strip system. Almost exact replica of Portal cube.
ALL sides are lighted (including bottom)

Whole system is 230x230x230mm SFF! Look at the worklog for a complete detailed guide on how the mediaBIN3.0 Weighted Companion Cube was built - http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=108257

Is it a wireless router / firewall / media server? lan socket seemed to be obstructed

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Yup. In the worklog I also commented on that, the back heart will normally not be removed as the server won't be needing a screen (but it's removable if I have to attach a screen for troubleshooting and installing new software for instance).
The network cables will be plugged into the sockets and bent 90 degrees down into the cube, coming through the spacing between the heart cover and the panel at the bottom towards the switch and WAN connection. So there's not going to be any wires on any side of the cube except the bottom I didn't want to cut a big hole anywhere on the cube for wires so this way all the sides look identical.

Haha, of course you're entitled to your opinion, but I'm just wondering if you're normally this pessimistic or do you just have very high standards? "Awh, that's absolutely awesome! Nah, I'll give it a 6". Haha